Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...setting for the first act is in a Swiss village. The story is of a pretty New York heiress, whose father is determined that she shall marry a title. Marjorie Grumble is engaged to Philip Hathaway, a college man; but old Mr. Grumble objects very seriously to the match because he wishes his daughter to marry a man with a title. He accordingly whisks her off to Europe, with her Aunt Maria and a colored maid. They are followed by Hathaway and two of his college friends, Billie Burt and Bertie Bill, disguised as wandering minstrels. Hathaway and his friends...
...last act, the Senator meets Miss Petzoldt, but mistakes her for a Miss Pottendorff, an American heiress whom he wishes his son to marry. He is delighted with her, so that when her real identity is discovered, he is forced to agree to the marriage of his son Oscar to her. He also consents to the marriage of Gehring and Stephanie, and acknowledges that Agathe's first duty is to her husband...
...Ross '01, who plays the part of Olaf, the innkeeper. One feature of the second act is the appearance of some twenty Indian warriors. The third act is filled with entertaining songs and dances. The opening chorus sung by twelve policemen, the Duke of Dedbroke's song, the "American Heiress," and the coon song, "My Animated Sunbeam," all received several encores...
...Grimes 2L Mr. R. E. Porter of the "Prevaricator," H.B. Ingalls '02 Will E. Pinch, "one of the finest," F.M. Sawtell '02 Mr. O.T.S. Toburn, the wheat king, C.C. Brayton '01 Countess Uhard, (nee Dukehunter) his niece, G. W. Knapp 2L. Miss Sylvia Dukehunter, her sister, and Toburn's heiress, J.C. Chipman '01 Nodo Woodmarry, "in de chorus," W.H. Taylor '01 Miss Ida Know, R.F. Jackson '03 Miss Merrie Stilly fe, A.W. Denison '03 Boston girls and friends of Sylvia. Mr. Harry Brain, I.T. Cutter '03 Mr. Art. Fuldodge, R.O. Burton '01 Mr. Flip Butrich, C.L. Ellison...
...discharged and reduced to poverty through the refusal of the military authorities to refund without investigation the advances made by him while in service. As a last means of securing money he is obliged to pledge to his landlord a ring which his betrothed, Minna von Barnhelm, a rich heiress of Saxony, had given to him. At the opening of the play Minna von Barnhelm in company with her maid, Franziska, has arrived at the inn and the landlord has not hesitated to deprive Tellhelm of his rooms in order to assign them to the wealthy strangers. Minna...